STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

These computers run off human neurons. Their developers believe they are the future of artificial intelligence.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

Purkinje cells, the neurons of the cerebellum, appear to die in an organized pattern, overturning previous beliefs that ...